'Woo-ing' in Crowds

[oconnor9sean]

Dallas fans kinda made this a thing at the beginning of last season, but it thankfully died out before this current season. I didnt realize that other fanbases had started doing it too. Heard it in Nashville and now Philly.

It was a fun bit last year, but it's gotten quite stale.

EDIT: My point was not to brag about Dallas starting it, or even claiming that they did. I noticed Voracek's comments and realized that other arenas are doing it and am vehemently against it.

EDIT(2): Woo-ing during play, not after goals.

 

[Hivemind]

I hate to break it to you, but Dallas didn't invent the "woo" in 2015.

 

[oconnor9sean]

I hate to break it to you, but Dallas didn't invent the "woo" in 2015.

Clearly they didnt invent the 'woo' but it's the first i'd seen it obnoxiously done in sporting arenas. I didnt even imply that they invented it.

 

[3074326]

Happens every time I've been in Pittsburgh for a victory, and I hate it.

EDIT: Hate may be a strong word. I don't partake.

 

[NJDevils7]

Its been going on in New Jersey. AFAIK it just randomly started one day and it caught on. Now they play the WOO after goals and the fans respond. I know there's some other teams that do it too.

 

[DownieFaceSoftener]

It's awful.

 

[ucanthanzalthetruth]

But he just said woo.

No, that was air escaping from the folds of his fat.

 

[BrianNYR]

The Isles have had the Woo's after goals for quite a number of years. That and Giggity Goo

The Canes used to have Ric Flair on their big screen after goals. This started at lease 8 years ago



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8j2yQ0GJSw

 

[Romang67]

I try to do that every time I go to a game, but they just tell me to leave them alone and let them focus on the game.

 

[necrobot]

Clearly they didnt invent the 'woo' but it's the first i'd seen it obnoxiously done in sporting arenas. I didnt even imply that they invented it.

It's actually done all over and I'm very surprised you've never noticed it before. It's popularity kinda began in professional wrestling, and growing up I would often see and hear Ric Flair with the crowd behind him woo'ing from the television as my family gathered in the living room.

Crowds love it and it gives a big connection between crowd and performer when they are able to finish each others sentences with exclamation points at the end.

 

[Jacques The Mayor]

I woo all over the damn place and I've been doing it for years. I think it happens at hockey games a lot because if you sit close enough you can hear the players doing it themselves when they score a goal or close out a playoff series. It probably happens at every hockey game I've ever been to. Dallas didn't make it a thing.

 

[Ozz]

Bruins announcers say WOOOO with each goal announcement, to which the crowd replies, "WOOO!". That's been going on as long as I can remember.

 

[PRNuck]

Pretty sure the first time I heard wooing after a goal was at a Victoria Salsa game back in like 2005. After every goal would be a "wooo!!" and then an Austin Powers "yeah baby!". It was literally the worst thing ever.

 

[geehaad]

As long as the Hurricanes have been a franchise (1997), this plays after each odd-numbered goal.

 

[Big McLargehuge]

Happens every time I've been in Pittsburgh for a victory, and I hate it.

EDIT: Hate may be a strong word. I don't partake.

Doesn't even necessarily have to be a victory...or a home game...and I'll use the word hate.

For the Pens it's cross-pollenation from Pirates fans doing it. Pirates-Reds games are especially annoying considering Reds fans do it just as much as Pirates fans do.

Frankly I'd like to punch each and every fan who does it.

It's stupid that it happens anywhere but Carolina, which at least has the Ric Flair connection.

 

[tarheelhockey]

Carolina has a legit claim to this. Ric Flair was woo'ing at minor league hockey games 20 years ago.

Yes, we invented something hockey related.

You're welcome.

 

[Russian Factor]

It happens a lot at Pirates games and Penguins games when the game is pretty much decided and the crowd starts thinning out.

I have no idea why it makes people so angry and for that reason I think it's hilarious. It harms no one and is just pure silliness. Who cares. It amuses me. Woooooo

 

[Foppberg]

It's been happening for decades.

 

[DonskoiDonscored]

This has been a thing at college hockey games and NHL games for at least twenty years now.

I agree, it's annoying.

 

[LetsGoBLUES91]

Nashville has been doing it since the beginning of time.

 

[CodeE]

Carolina has a legit claim to this. Ric Flair was woo'ing at minor league hockey games 20 years ago.

Yes, we invented something hockey related.

You're welcome.

Forget minor league hockey games.

WOOOOO is (one of) Ric Flair's catchphrases.

Ric Flair reps Carolina.

Thus, WOOOO should be claimed by the Hurricanes.

 

[FLYLine27*]

LoL at thinking Dallas started this in 2015.

 

[CanadienShark]

Pretty sure the first time I heard wooing after a goal was at a Victoria Salsa game back in like 2005. After every goal would be a "wooo!!" and then an Austin Powers "yeah baby!". It was literally the worst thing ever.

We had such ****** names for our hockey teams in Victoria...

Salsa, Salmon Kings....

 

[Analyst365]

Not pejorative at all .... but I honestly thought Americans just liked to 'wooo' like Rick Flair for all kinds of reasons.

 

[Legionnaire11]

Nashville has been doing it since the beginning of time.

Certainly not. And never in the manner that most folks in this thread are describing as in after a goal.

I think that the crowd doing a Woo in unison after a goal announcement is pretty lame, but it's better than what OP is referring too which is just random wooing during the game. It happened last week (or maybe the week before) where fans just took turns belting out a quick WOO all around the arena, it was bizarre and very distracting from the events on ice. There was some discussion of it on the Preds boards afterwards because it was so unusual to us long-time and regularly attending fans.